BASRA, Iraq (Reuters) -- Thousands of protesters in Iraq's southern oil city of Al-Basrah have demanded their own federal region, akin to minority Kurds' peaceful, prosperous enclave in the country's ...

Iraqi security forces in Al-Basrah on March 25 (AFP) Fierce clashes between radical Shi'ite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr's militia, the Imam Al-Mahdi Army, and government forces in the southern Iraqi city ...

First Lt. Michael Johnson, second from left, of the Alabama Army National Guard's 203rd Military Police Battalion, uses a measurement wheel to determine the size of the perimeter of one of the ...

On Sept. 30, Naval Facilities Engineering Command Europe and Southwest Asia (NAVFAC EURSWA) awarded an $11.5 million contract modification for the Al Basrah (ABOT) and Khawr Al Amaya Oil Terminal ...

Seabees from Naval Mobile Construction Battalion (NMCB) 4 arrived to oil terminals located off the coast of Aug. 23 to work on living conditions and improve platform access. Few Seabees have had the ...

The clashes in the southern Iraqi oil and port city of Basra pose the first real test of the viability of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s government. The situation in Basra has spiraled out of ...

Why did Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki attack the Mahdi army in Basra last week? By the time the cease-fire was called, al-Maliki had been bloodied after days of ineffective fighting and ...

Coalition officials said Thursday it was too early to blame al-Qaida for simultaneous suicide car bombings in Basra that killed dozens of people, reviving the issue of how much of a role foreign ...

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Groups of heavily armed Ba`th Party members, sometimes supported by members of the General Security Directorate, began arresting people in Basra the next morning, on March 18, and continued for ...